The black jacobins by clr james6/3/2023 Lothrop Stoddard - a future Klansman from Massachusetts who lamented the erasure of “the finest of European colonies from the map of the white world.” “I was tired of hearing that the West Indians were oppressed,” James recalled decades later, “that we were black and miserable, that we had been brought from Africa, and that we were living there and that we were being exploited” - hence his “goddamn hell.”Ĭyril had the additional choice of The French Revolution in San Domingo, widely distributed by Houghton Mifflin in 1914, by one T. His book proved a radicalizing moment for the young Trinidadian. Though sympathetic to Toussaint’s struggle against the French colonial ruling class, the Australian writer Waxman couldn’t look past race. His voice was high-pitched, nasal, and none too pleasant. His lips were thick, his nose broad and flat, with nostrils wide and open. He possessed a forbidding prognathous jaw. In those pages, he learned the rebel general Toussaint Louverture’sįace was decidedly homely. The young writer could find only the likes of Percy Waxman’s The Black Napoleon. “What the goddamn hell is this?” Cyril Lionel Robert James, lanky cricketer and budding journalist in colonial Trinidad, was unhappy as he scoured libraries in Port of Spain for a decent book on France’s former colony Saint-Domingue.
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